In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.